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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (142907)	9/6/2001 1:20:45 AM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (2) of 186894

I can't less this boner pass... <<Dan, Re: "Even with an optimized RC5 client it is doubtful that the Pentium 4 will be able to do much in purely integer tests like this one." Nobody cares. The market for individuals who buy computers to crack encryption codes is small enough that AMD can have them. <ggg> >> The market for _breaking_ encryption is indeed near zero. (And will be even closer to zero as key lengths increase, there not being enough computer power in the universe to brute force ciphers beyond a length already quite practical to use.) However, servers in a variety of Web transactions use RC4, RC5, and other RSA ciphers and signature schemes extensively. And throughput is important. "Signatures/second" in SSL is an important metric. A friend of mine who works at RSA recently apprised me of some optimized Itanium benchmarks. Even the 733 MHz Itanium grossly outperformed the Ultrasparc III. The point is that RC4, RC5, and RSA benchmarks have nothing to do with "breaking ciphers" and everything to do with processing secure transactions. --Tim May

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